By terror I mean the efficiency gained by eliminating,
or threatening to eliminate,
a player from the language game one shares with him.
He is silenced or consents,
not because he has been refuted,
but because his ability to participate has been threatened
(there are many ways to prevent someone from playing).
. . . The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take.
We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one,